Count Giselbert of Brabant

Count Giselbert of Brabant (821-892) was Count of the Maasgau (the Brabant) on the lower Meuse River under the Frankish Empire. He served King Lothaire II of Lotharingia, but in the 840-843 civil war he defected to the camp of Charles the Bald of West Francia. Lothair later conquered his lands and revoekd his titles, but in 846 Giselbert abducted a daughter of Lothaire and married her, with Reginar of Lower Lorraine being their son. He died in 892.